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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 03:30 PM
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Everyone is an atheist.
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Everyone.

If you don't believe me, just ask yourself, "do I believe every single god that man has come up with over the ages?"

If you don't, you're atheistic with regards to those gods.

So I contend that everyone is at least a bit atheist (unless there's someone out there who DOES believe in every god ever invented).

Are you "rejecting" or "denying" the divinity of Zeus or Mithra by lacking a belief in them? Of course not.

Apply that insight to atheists' lack of belief in ANY gods, and the matter of "atheism is disbelief in god", where 'disbelief in god' is really code for 'rejection of my god that I really truly know exists, for reals!', may just be understood better by those having difficulty with the concept of weak atheism.

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